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每一个人都有自己小小的童年，然而，人们都是无法选择自己的出生，无法预知自己的童年。快乐或悲伤，似乎都是命中注定。苹果之父乔布斯又有怎样的童年呢？

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Larry Lang
assemble-it-yourself
Heathkits
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His pranks by then typically involved electronics. At one point he wired his house with speakers. But since speakers can also be used as microphones, he built a control room in his closet, where he could listen in on what was happening in other rooms. One night, when he had his headphones on and was listening in on his parents' bedroom, his father caught him and angrily demanded that he dismantle the system. He spent many evenings visiting the garage of Larry Lang, the engineer who lived down the street from his old house. Lang eventually gave Jobs the carbon microphone that had fascinated him, and he turned him on to Heathkits, those assemble-it-yourself kits for making ham radios and other electronic gear that were beloved by the soldering set back then. "Heathkits came with all the boards and parts color-coded, but the manual also explained the theory of how it operated," Jobs recalled. "It made you realize you could build and understand anything. Once you built a couple of radios, you'd see a TV in the catalogue and say, 'I can build that as well,' even if you didn't. I was very lucky, because when I was a kid both my dad and the Heathkits made me believe I could build anything."
那时候，他的恶作剧一般都会用到电子设备。有一次，他在家中连接了几个扬声器。扬声器也可以用做麦克风，他在自己的衣柜里建了一个控制室，这样就可以偷听其他房间的声音了。有天晚上，他正戴着耳机偷听父母房间的声音，父亲逮到了他，愤怒要求他拆除整套系统。很多晚上他都会造访他以前的工程师邻居拉里•朗的车库。朗最终把那只令乔布斯魂牵梦萦的炭精麦克风送给了他，还让他迷上了希斯工具盒——当时广受欢迎的用来制作无线电设备或其他电子装备，但需要自己组装的工具套装。“希斯工具盒里面有各种各样用不同颜色编号的插件板和零部件，还有解释其使用原理的操作手册。”乔布斯回忆，“它让你意识到你能组装并搞懂任何东西。你做完几个无线电装置后，就会在目录里看到电视机，你会说，这个我也能做，即便你并不会真的去做。我很幸运，因为当我还是个孩子的时候，我的父亲，还有希斯工具盒都让我相信，我能做出任何东西。”